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内容总结：

埃隆·马斯克旗下人工智能公司xAI近日宣布，将在美国西雅图设立新工程中心，进一步加剧与科技巨头之间的人才争夺战。该公司已通过社交媒体平台X发布招聘信息，为图像/视频生成及GPU内核团队招募工程师，年薪范围高达18万至44万美元。

西雅图作为科技人才聚集地，长期以来吸引着硅谷企业的目光。此次布局不仅彰显xAI的扩张野心，更折射出马斯克与微软之间错综复杂的关系——双方既是云计算服务合作伙伴，又因OpenAI垄断诉讼处于对立面。值得注意的是，微软CEO纳德拉今年5月刚宣布其Azure云平台将托管xAI的Grok模型，此次xAI西雅图办公室的选址距离微软总部仅数英里。

xAI成立于2023年，凭借基于X平台实时数据的Grok聊天机器人崭露头角。目前西雅图办公室的具体规模尚未公布，但该地区已汇聚OpenAI、Anthropic等多家头部AI企业，其中OpenAI本周刚宣布以11亿美元收购当地企业Statsig。马斯克旗下SpaceX公司在西雅图邻近的雷德蒙德市也设有大型星链卫星研发中心，这为其人工智能业务布局提供了地域协同优势。

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中文翻译：

亚马逊和微软请捂紧你们的工程师——埃隆·马斯克的人工智能初创公司要来西雅图了。

这位亿万富翁在其X社交平台上宣布，xAI公司将在西雅图设立新工程中心。目前已发布图像/视频生成团队和GPU内核团队的职位招聘，年薪范围在18万至44万美元之间。

此次布局值得关注的部分原因在于马斯克与微软的复杂关系——据称他职业生涯早期曾在该公司实习。马斯克目前正起诉微软及其合作伙伴OpenAI，指控两家公司形成了反竞争的人工智能垄断联盟。

与此同时，微软却是xAI的重要行业合作伙伴。今年五月，马斯克与微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉共同宣布，Azure云平台将托管xAI的Grok模型，为这家初创企业打通进军企业级市场的通道。

马斯克于2023年创立xAI直接对标OpenAI，公司以"理解宇宙本质"为使命。这家硅谷企业最知名的产品是基于X平台（原推特）实时数据的聊天机器人Grok。

xAI西雅图办公室的具体选址、规模等细节尚未公布。我们已联系公司获取详细信息，将在收到回复后更新本文。

得益于深厚的工程人才储备，西雅图自二十年前甲骨文和谷歌入驻以来一直是硅谷科技公司设立工程前哨的首选地，尽管疫情后这一趋势有所降温。

其他在此设点的硅谷AI巨头包括：本周刚宣布以11亿美元收购贝尔维尤市Statsig公司的OpenAI；以及Claude聊天机器人开发商Anthropic——该公司不仅是亚马逊的紧密合作伙伴，也获得了亚马逊的投资。

马斯克本人对此地亦不陌生。其太空探索技术公司SpaceX在邻近的雷德蒙德设有大型基地，该基地是星链卫星互联网服务的主要研发中心。

本消息由Business Insider率先报道。

英文来源：

Hold on to your engineers, Amazon and Microsoft — Elon Musk’s AI startup is coming to town.
In a post this week on the billionaire’s X social media platform, xAI announced that it’s establishing a new engineering hub in Seattle. Job posts are already up for roles on its image/video generation and GPU kernel teams, with salaries ranging from $180,000 to $440,000 a year.
The expansion to the region is notable in part because of Musk’s complicated relationship with Microsoft, where he reportedly interned early in his career. Musk is suing Microsoft — along with its partner OpenAI — alleging the two have formed an anti-competitive AI monopoly.
At the same time, Microsoft is one of xAI’s key industry partners. Musk and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced in May that the Azure cloud would host xAI’s Grok models, giving the startup a better pipeline to the enterprise market.
Elon Musk launched xAI in 2023 as a direct competitor to OpenAI, with the mission of “understanding the true nature of the universe.” Based in Silicon Valley, it’s best known for Grok, a chatbot powered by real-time data from X, formerly Twitter.
The specific location, size and other details of the xAI office in Seattle haven’t yet been announced. We’ve contacted the company for details and will update this post when we hear back.
Due to the strong pool of engineering talent, Seattle has been a prime location for Silicon Valley engineering outposts dating back to the arrival of Oracle and Google two decades ago, although the trend has cooled somewhat since the pandemic.
Other major Silicon Valley AI startups with offices in the region include OpenAI, which this week announced a deal to acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based Statsig for $1.1 billion; and Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot and a close partner of Amazon, which also invests in the company.
Musk himself is no stranger to the region. His aerospace company, SpaceX, operates a major facility in nearby Redmond, which serves as the primary development hub for the Starlink satellite internet service.
Business Insider first reported the news of xAI’s new Seattle office.